[SunkenCiv]

full title, "From Stone Darts to Dismembered Bodies, New Study Reveals 5,000 Years of Violence in Central California".

Projectile point in human remains in California Remains found in Contra Costa County, California, included a projectile point embedded in the bone. The burial was dated to between 500 amd 1500 BCE. (Photo by Randy Wiberg)

[TaxPayer2000]

After 13 years of mining the data, the researchers identified what they say is a complex pattern of episodic violence, driven by forces as diverse as competition for territory, pressure from a changing climate, and the arrival of Europeans.

I knew they would blame climate change for the violence.

[skeeter]

Sounds like a night in East LA.

[Psalm 144]

The savagery in the pre-Colombian American Southwest would make Conan the Barbarian blink. Genocide plus cannibalism at several points.

[ZULU]

This was California BEFORE pot!!! (Sarcasm)

[Sherman Logan]

IOW, over a 5000 year period 12.5% of the natives died from violence.

To give some comparison, about 2.5M Americans died last year. We had about 50,000 murders and suicides last year, deaths by violence.

IOW, a rate of violent death of around 2%.

This study, BTW, lines up with a most excellent book. War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage by Lawrence H. Keeley. Highly recommended.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Before-Civilization-Peaceful-Savage/dp/0195119126

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Before_Civilization

[bunkerhill7]

We need to stop DART VIOLENCE-

All dart games in California bars, pubs, restaurants, carnivals and church festivals in California are hereby banned -

In NY State bar patrons are limited to only 10 darts per game.

Only 3 feathered darts are legal-

any more than 3 feathers are classified defined as ASSAULT DARTS and must be registered with ATF&D {Alcoholol, Tobacco, Firearms and Darts]

Dart tip points must be of plastic with yellow stripes.

All potential users of DARTS must take a pre-requisite course on DART SAFETY 101 [$300 cost]

A C&CD license is required to buy darts at Walmart and other sporting good stores.

[married21]

Yosemite comes from “yo-hem-it-tee”. It means “those people are killers”. (My daughter was into Native American California language when she was in elementary school and that was one of the pithy facts she picked up.)

[Nifster]

Oh no.... golly you mean as folks moved back and forth across territory, they fought with each other???? Who would have ever guessed that?

Sometimes as interesting as the data is, the modern studiers just seem to be so thrilled with their obvious conclusions. Our taxpayers dollars went for these studies

[Safetgiver]

most of us believe that an inclination to resort to violence in certain situations is part of the human condition.”....How much money did they get for this realization? Animals is animals, that’s why we call them animals.

[csvset]

I grew up in Contra Costa County. The local naitives were peace loving fishermen that traded shells. Oh and they ate acorns. At least that is what the story was back in the day. I wonder where they found the stone dart at.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Is that a spine?

[Verginius Rufus]

The Indians were peaceful.

If they have found evidence of violence, that must mean one thing:

The Vikings got much further west than we had realized. Not just to Minnesota (Kensington Runestone), but all the way to California.